Facebook Security

The Facebook Translations application has been tricked to show text containing vulgarities when in Spanish.

From what i read from allfacebook, it doesnt seem much of a hack but more of a unforeseen consequence of giving people control. When enough people vote on a translation, it will replace the previous translation, which is suppose to be helpful when people know what they're doing.

And again this brings up the issue of misuse, which i've seen quite a lot of during the siwm presentations recently. Why these people do it makes no sense to me. However, it does seem that Facebook is a target for many of these hacking/security issues.

Another recent issue is where a hacker published data of around a 100 million Facebook Users. And its only because they hadn’t changed their privacy settings to make their pages unavailable to search engines. The key point to this is that these peoples friends(who might not be searchable) are now available for viewing to whoever holds that data.

I would say this is mostly harmless(for their friends), as with the proper privacy settings, all strangers would ever see are their names. It is therefore very important to make use of that, as well as any other logical safety precaution such as not putting up too personal details.

I think i've made that point quite a few times. Better to rely on oneself and not just Facebook.